Lust for Life (1956) is a MGM biography of Metrocolor about the life of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, based on a 1934 novel by the same name by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin.
The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh, James Donald as his brother Theo, with Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, and Anthony Quinn. Douglas won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Drama Drama for her performance, while Quinn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Plot
Vincent had been trained to be a pastor, like his father, but the church authorities thought him unsuitable. He begged them to be allowed some positions and they placed him in a very poor mining community. Here he became deeply absorbed in daily poverty and began sketching everyday life. Apostate religious leaders do not like the approach, and they frown on their social activism and care for the poor. He went home to his father's house. Here a very beloved woman (her cousin) rejects Van Gogh because of her inability to support herself financially. The infatuated Vincent follows him to his family's home, where he holds his hand on a candle flame to prove his devotion, only to find that he has said he is disgusted by him and does not want to see him again. A friend gave him paint and artist material and encouraged him to paint, and he headed to Paris. Here he received a prostitute who eventually also left because he was too poor. His passion then changed completely into a painting, which he pursued while torturing that his vision exceeded his ability to execute. His brother, Theo van Gogh, provided financial and moral support.
Paul Gauguin (whom he met in Paris) joined him in Arles, and for a while his life was good, but Vincent was too obsessive even to Gauguin's taste and they argued, after which Vincent cut off his own ears. Vincent began experiencing hallucinations and convulsions and volunteered to commit to mental institutions. She signed herself, and with Theo's help go back to the countryside to continue painting. Describing cornfields he was frustrated by the crows and finally shot himself desperately for never being able to put what he saw on the canvas. As a result, he died within days of shooting himself.
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Cast
Production
The film is based on a 1934 novel by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin. Vincente Minnelli directed the film, while John Houseman produced it. They worked with Douglas in the 1952 melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful , where he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
The subject of photography began in August and ended in December 1955 and was shot at locations in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. George Cukor takes Minnelli's place as director to take the scene. Two hundred enlarged color photos were used to describe Vincent's complete canvas; this is in addition to copies executed by an American art teacher, Robert Parker. To prepare for his role as a troubled painter, Douglas practiced painting crows so he could imitate van Gogh at work. According to his wife Anne, Douglas is so characteristic that he returns home in character. When asked if he would do such a thing again, Douglas replied that he would not do it.
Reception
New York Times critic Bosley Crowther praised the conception of film, acting and color schemes, noting the design team "consciously made the color flow and interaction of the composition and color of the most powerful device for delivering a van Gogh understanding film." < i> Variety says, "This is a slow-moving picture whose only action exists in the dialog itself."
Box office
According to MGM records, the film earned $ 1,595,000 in the US and Canada and $ 1,100,000 elsewhere resulting in a $ 2,072,000 loss.
Awards and nominations
- the 29th Academy Awards nominee
- Win
- Best Actor: Kirk Douglas
- Actor in a Supporting Role: Anthony Quinn ( won )
- Best Writing (Scenario - Adapted): Norman Corwin
- Best Art Direction (Color): Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Preston Ames; Decoration Set: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
- 14th Golden Globe Awards nominee
- Best Motion Picture - Drama
- Best Actor - Moving Drama Draw - Kirk Douglas ( won )
- Best Supporting Actor - Moving Image - Anthony Quinn
- Best Director - Vincente Minnelli
Companion short movie
MGM produces the short film Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light, narrated by Dore Schary and shows the European location used for filming, to promote Lust for Life . In the film, a 75-year-old woman from Auvers-sur-Oise (not Jeanne Calment, who lives in Arles a few hundred kilometers to the south), who claims to have known Van Gogh when she was a young girl, met Kirk Douglas, about how he looks like a painter. This short promotional movie is featured in the occasional Turner Classic Movies. At the beginning and end of the film, the list of creators and thanks to galleries, collectors and historians who allow Van Gogh's works to be photographed for the film.
See also
- List of American films in 1956
- Vincent van Gogh's death
- Vincent (documentary 1987)
- Vincent & amp; Theo (1990 biographical film about van Gogh which is often compared to Lust for Life )
References
External links
- Lust for Life on IMDb
- Lust for Life in the TCM Film Database
- Lust for Life at AllMovie
- Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light on IMDb, short companion movie
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